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Ken Walibora speaks (in Swahili) at the University of Wasta, Kenya. Come read his fiction piece “Poor Grandpa” in the May 2013 Issue of Words without Borders. 

An interesting little clip (in Arabic) featuring writer Hassan Blasim and an evocative musical soundtrack. Come read “The Green Zone Rabbit” by Blasim in the April 2013: Iraq, Ten Years Later Issue of Words without Borders. 

A Hassan Blasim interview (in English) by Comma Press. Come read his fiction piece “The Green Zone Rabbit” in the April 2013: Writing from Iraq Issue of Words without Borders. 

http://youtu.be/jhBxbWbAeiw

Come read an interview with Zygmunt in the Dispatches section of Words without Borders. 

from Zakariya’s My Invisible Friend in our march Issue:

“I placed my right ear against the trunk of the bitter orange tree, but I didn’t hear its heart throb and beat. And I said to myself that the orange tree was asleep, and it was surely very different from us, because when the tree slept, its heart slept as well.

My tree is asleep.”

Under the Sign of Anaximander from our March Issue:

“With God dead, His attributes have been hacked into pieces and distributed among us in this carnage of existence. Performance: media stars. Power: bankers. Being in itself: Art. Where among these would you say that you fit?”

I pretended to be buried in deepest thought.

“In Art, maybe?”

They burst into laughter. “I told you so. Another total waste.”

Two great books from our Words without Borders Book Review section: Amélie Nothomb’s “Life Form” and Yoko Ogawa’s “Revenge”. 

A video trailer for Hamid Ismailov’s fictional documentary “A Poet and Bin-Laden”, described as a reality novel, that begins on the eve of 9/11 and follows the transformation of an educated Uzbek poet into a militant fundamentalist aligned with al-Qaeda. Come read Ismailov’s poem “Lovers in Samarkand” in the September 2012: Writing from the Silk Road Issue of Words without Borders.

Finn-Ole Heinrich reads (in German). Come take a look at his fiction piece “A Time for Jokes” in the September 2012: Writing from the Silk Road Issue of Words without Borders. 

The trailer for the Korean film “Howling” based on ”The Hunter” by Asa Nonami (in Korean). Come read an excerpt from her story “Face” in the August 2012: New Writing from Japan, Part II Issue of Words without Borders.